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Better keep your granny out of Dedham

By adamg on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 10:07am

UPDATE: Dedham's safe for granny again: They grabbed the gator.

Channel 5 reports a canoeist spotted a decent-sized gator on a log in the Charles yesterday. With photo to prove it.

So, to recap: We've got coyotes and turkeys up the wazoo, emus running amok, wild parakeets ruling the roost, jellyfish in Walden Pond and a pig rooting around the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. And now an alligator. Maybe the state could make some money by declaring greater Boston a wildlife preserve and putting up admission booths around 128.

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Comments

By HeyNonnyNonnyNonnyMus on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 11:04am.

They've already identified the crocodilian as male!

Or it could just be the banality of everyday sexism...

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By Brett on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 11:33am.

First frost, that sucker's deader than a doornail.

By the way, that's not really proof- how do we actually know this photo was taken anywhere but, say, Florida?

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By anon on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 11:59am.

Because it had been sighted before and was captured there this morning?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/201...

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By adamg on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 3:22pm.

Channel 5 reports and posts a photo of the reptile in custody.

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By anon on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 3:41pm.

Holy crap.

Topher Cox, 38, of Needham, an advertising photographer, said this morning that he had bought a canoe on craigslist.org and was taking it out for a spin Thursday afternoon when he saw the alligator,

A favorable gratuitous mention of CraigsList? The Globe must feel bad about skewering CL's pimping sideline.

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